News from Brasilia 04/16/2020

Coronavirus in Brasilia
696 confirmed cases and 17 deaths

Good news 
A patient had hospital discharge after almost a month in intensive unit care at Home Hospital.

President Bolsonaro will be obliged to show the results of his exams for coronavirus,
This was a request of the Chamber of Representatives (Câmara dos Deputados) and the president has 30 days to show them. After a trip to USA, where he and the presidential comitive met with president Trump, over 20 people, including the Brazilian secretary of press, tested positive for coronavirus.

Bolsonaro said he tested negative twice, but he never showed the results. Besides not showing the first and the second exams, he keeps disobeying social distance international recommendations.  On March 15th, 2020, there was a march of support to his Government in many cities in Brazil. Although the president said days before (in his weekly live in social media) he does not recommended the march in face of the coronavirus pandemics, he went downstairs of the presidential palace that day to greet his supporters and take pictures with them. And in the following days, he continued this attitude in at least 2 situations, when he went to a bakery and when he was visiting a campaign hospital.
There is a strong rumor that the minister of Health, Mandetta, will be fired. Mandetta has gained a lot of support from the Brazilians, from the media and even artists in their lives compliment Mandetta for his work in this difficult moment of coronavirus pandemics. However, he and the president disagree about the form of isolation. Bolsonaro defends vertical isolation to affect less the economy. Bolsonaro also openly defends the use of chloroquine, while Mandetta still has some criticism to broad use of the medication.